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2619
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# Posted: 4 Mar 2015 11:02
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I understand some of you haul in larger quantities of pottable water, how do you go about transporting and handling the weight?
We have to bring water to our camp, currrently our largest water jugs are 7 gallons. Access to our property is not an issue nor is available fresh water(we do not have a well on the premise). We get our water from local public wells and artesian wells. We have a 3/4 ton truck so weight really isn't an issue either.
I have considered using multiple "manageable" sized water containers to fill a larger water tank for our longer stays.
Anyone willing to share their input would be greatly appreciated.
I am not interested in rain water collections sytems, although there are a lot of awesome sytems shared on this site!
Thanks!
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Bzzzzzt
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# Posted: 4 Mar 2015 11:48
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I collect rain water now, but before I was doing that I had a couple of 55 gallon drums that I simply put (empty) in the back of my pickup truck and then filled with my garden hose at my main house. I would then take them to the land and siphon the water into another 55 gallon drum and use a 2 wheel dolly to transport it over to where I needed it.
The first couple times I tried to put a manageable amount of water in the 55 gal drum and unload it off the truck but the water sloshing around while I was driving actually made the truck sway so filling it up completely was better. Offloading it wasn't that hard on some ramps with about 40 gallons in it as I can work with 320 pounds ok by myself. The siphoning method works much better though. It's just slow.
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silverwaterlady
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# Posted: 4 Mar 2015 11:52
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I had a friend with a house in OK without a well. He had a pickup truck water tank. He just had it filled in town,pulled up close to the house and pumped the water from the tank into the house. Never took the tank out of the pickup.
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2619
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# Posted: 4 Mar 2015 14:02
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Thanks everyone...siphoning large container to large container seems like the way to go!
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Pookie129
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# Posted: 4 Mar 2015 14:47
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well since we are on the subject....any comments about how to keep that amount of water fresh? how would you treat the water?
Thanks in advance for any comments, and I apologize in advance 2619 for butting in....
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Littlecooner
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# Posted: 4 Mar 2015 17:15
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Since when does water "spoil"? If your container is clean, it should last a long time without any accumulated taste or smell. they claim some of the aquifer water you buy in bottles is from Millions of years ago and that stuff taste ok to me.
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 4 Mar 2015 17:38
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Quoting: Pookie129 well since we are on the subject....any comments about how to keep that amount of water fresh? how would you treat the water?
Make sure if its the clear tank, its covered up, ie no sunlight. Or get the black tank, but harder to see contaminates. Best deal, a clear tank, fully enclose, ie a structure around it. No sunlight to it.
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Darenkcbiggar
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# Posted: 4 Mar 2015 17:49
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I don't have to carry water, spring runs right behind my camp, at least 10 gallons a minute. I pump water in a holding tank for Gray water, that's gravity fed to camp.
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justme
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# Posted: 5 Mar 2015 10:05 - Edited by: justme
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Haul water in an ibc Tote and then pump it into our 1500 gallon tank that is partially in ground with a shed around it
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pizzadude
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# Posted: 9 May 2015 12:24
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I've been saving plastic milk jugs. Have about a dozen of them. I'll fill them with tap water at my parents house. The jugs along with a few 7 gallon jugs will keep me going for a good while.
Eventually I'll figure a RWC system... but this is the way I'll go until then.
Watched an interesting video on filtering water with Berkey water filters that I'm sold on. A system so simple and easy yet effective to remove 99.99% impurities including the removal of fluorine from tap water.
Items needed:
(2) stainless steel 3gal pots with lids($7 at Wal-Mart)
(2)Berkey carbon screw in drip-type filters
Take the lid from one of the pots and cut it out around the perimeter so that the other pot can sit nicely on to of the other.
Still out the bottom of one of the pots in two spots to accompany the filters.
Then just slide the filters into the holes and tighten the wingnuts firmly. Fit the pots together and voila!
I'll filter my tap water from the milk jugs that I intend to drink. I'll probably filter enough at one time and store in a pitcher or another container inside the fridge.
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MtnDon
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# Posted: 9 May 2015 12:32
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100 gallon poly tank in the truck bed for hauling. That gets transfered by gravity hose to the 325 underground cistern.
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Al Burton
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# Posted: 9 May 2015 13:15
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I second the use of IBC totes. I have 3 250 gallon totes with the tank itself wrapped in heavy black poly. 2 are for storage and 1 is for transport. They are not that heavy so I can throw the one in the truck when I need to. I fill from a neighbors well then transfer with a 1.5" gas water pump that only takes a few minutes. One tote is in a super insulated heated building with a shower I keep warm all winter. The totes I got were used for olive oil and still had some in them so I know for sure they were good for potable water use. I had to pay a bit more but (100.00 cdn ea) but better than not knowing for sure what had been in them. Will post some pics when I get there next week.
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bldginsp
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# Posted: 9 May 2015 15:19 - Edited by: bldginsp
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I've seen various types and sizes of trailers with water tanks on them for bringing water to a construction site or for agricultural purposes. Finding a used one, making sure it never had chemicals in it, repairing it etc would be work and money, but once you had it it would make everything easy. Doesn't take up space in the truck you need for other stuff, and no moving of containers, just park it and hook it up. One possibility if you plan to never drill a well.
You could make your own by getting a heavy duty trailer and mounting a tank on it. Then you would know that the tank was clean. They make all different sizes and configurations of such tanks, including internal dividers that limit the slosh effect as you are going down the road. I guess limitations to how much water you could tow would be the weight rating of your trailer but more importantly the stopping power of your truck. A trailer with its own brakes would be a good idea.
Here is a 500 gallon tank, full would weigh over 4000 lbs. This is probably the upper limit of tow capacity for a full sized 3/4 ton pickup.
http://www.tank-depot.com/productdetails.aspx?part=N-42353
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creeky
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# Posted: 9 May 2015 16:15
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Pookie keep a look out for the blue 50 gallon barrels. the blue is said to put uv through the water when it gets hit by light.
they do need to be hdpe 2. usually says on the side or sometimes on the bottom of the barrel.
and you can often pick them up for 10-15 bucks cause lots of foods etc ship in 'em.
I move my barrels from my well to my camp with a tractor. what. you don't have a tractor. lol.
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pizzadude
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# Posted: 10 May 2015 01:09
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In case you want a better explaination on simple water purification, here is boss..
https://youtu.be/CjGxUAOrkrM
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cabingal3
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# Posted: 10 May 2015 06:43
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i use to haul water in plastic milk jugs too pizzadude...now we haul water from our neighbors here in the woods ...
soon we shall have our well up and running.then we will still have to haul it from another part of our property to our cabin.
soon we will have a water hose to have water closer to our cabin but that cant happen in winter.
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headedtocamp55
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# Posted: 10 May 2015 21:58
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This is how I haul water to my camp. I found the tank on craig's list. I also bought the trailer at harbor freight. I have a 350 gal tank in the crawl space of my camp the I will with this.
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bldginsp
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# Posted: 11 May 2015 20:01
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Here's what I had in mind, but I guess this is quite a leap from collecting one gallon jugs
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jrwasko66
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# Posted: 25 Aug 2020 15:17
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I used to haul water and switched to rain once i got my building to the point i could install gutters.
I had a 4 cyl Toyota Tacoma and it was 5 miles down a dirt rutted road to my shack from the nearest well. You can find places online that sell a "loaf" tank for hauling water. Min held 200 gallons. Never a problem. You just slide the empty tank into the bed. A bigger truck with bigger payload means a larger tank.
If i would not have switched rain I would have bought a cheap trailer and dedicated it to that loaf tank.
Get gutters on your place and a cistern. Its free water without hauling so whatever you spend on that pay-off in notime.
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Autumn
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# Posted: 9 Sep 2020 09:43
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I am working on putting in a well. But until then we haul our water with a liquid Gaylord. We made a small trailer for it with an old axel from a boat trailer. We also have a 55 gallon auto roof top half moon water hauler that can be found from horse supply stores.
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